Billing for your organic and natural food store in Rajasthan
Which farmer's bajra is on the shelf, how much jaggery is left in the sack, and who wants the usual bag.
Rajasthan's districts and what grows or is traded there
An organic store buys from the districts that grow and trade the goods, and hears about each one from its suppliers.
- Nagaur's dried red chilli trade is huge, and the district's cattle fair is held every November.
- Sikar's local industry opportunities, as the Rajasthan Foundation lists them, include dal, edible oil and cattle feed, with granite tiles and PVC pipes.
- Alwar ka mawa, the milk cake, is the city's famous sweet, sold at Tripolia Market and the markets near Hope Circus.
- Ajmer produces salt, among other minerals, and has feldspar grinding, cement, marble and granite industries.
- Barmer's HPCL refinery complex at Pachpadra will process 9 million tonnes of crude a year, and about 35,000 workers had been engaged by February 2023.
Tools for a store of millets, jaggery and cold-pressed oil
Orders to suppliers
Orders kept group by group, with what arrived noted, so you know whom you bought this season's bajra from.
Low stock warnings
A warning on the ker-sangri packs and the pickle jars as the visitors' months begin, so the shelf is full before the first bus.
Daily reports
What sold of each millet and oil through the cold months, to read before the next winter.
Bills on your phone
Pack by pack on the bill: 250 grams, 500 grams or a kilo of each flour and jaggery, each counted as its own pack.
Online orders
The usual monthly list from a family, placed from your shop page and packed when the shop is quiet.
A shelf of bajra and ghee, and a customer who asks where it came from
The label says natural, and the customer asks whose field
People who pay more for bajra, moong, ghee or cold-pressed oil are paying for a farmer's work. The shop buys from a farmers' group one season and from another the next, and a sack of bajra on the shelf has no name on it. Next season nobody can say which group's bajra the family liked.
Loose millets and jaggery do not wait
The owner fills packs of 250 and 500 grams from one big sack of jaggery and one of bajra flour, and cannot tell, at the end of a week, how much was sold and how much was just taken out for the next pack. The flour packs left from Monday are mixed with Thursday's, and nobody knows which are older.
Oil poured from a drum into the customer's own bottle
The shop sells cold-pressed oil from a big tin and pours it into whatever bottle the customer brings. Bottles are never the same size, so the same ladle is a different amount in each. The price is worked out in the head, and the customer with the small bottle and the customer with the big one are each told a price by eye.
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Farmer by farmer, pack by pack, bag by bag
Ker-sangri packs for the visitor who wants to take Rajasthan home
Visitors on their way back from the dunes and the forts ask for ker-sangri, bajra flour and pickle to carry home. Keep each pack as its own item with its price. Ker-sangri and pickle go to the relatives at home, and bajra flour to the cook who wants to try it, and the three are in one bag before the bus is called, ready to open at home with the family around.
The sack, and the packs filled from it, both on the count
Fill the 250 and 500 gram packs from the big sack in the quiet hour, and add them to the count as packs. Each sale takes one pack off. At the end of the week the sack and the packs together tell how much jaggery was really sold, and the next filling is decided from the packs left.
The litres poured go on the bill
Pour into the customer's own bottle and let her watch the litres as you enter them. The number on the bill is the number she saw poured. The tin's stock comes down by the same litres, so the bottle in her hand and the tin agree.
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A sack on the shelf has no name on it. How do I tie it to a season's order?
Name the item with the group and the season when you note what arrived. The item then carries whose field it came from, and the next season's sack is a new item with the next group's name.
Jaggery sells slowly in summer. How do I see whether an opened sack is moving?
Watch the packs you fill each week. In the heat the same sack lasts longer every week and you fill fewer packs at a time, so the packs sold against what is left in the sack show whether it is moving.
A customer asks which cold-pressed oil she bought last time. Can I tell her?
Yes. Her page lists her bills by date, and each line names the oil and the litres, so you read the name off the page and not from memory.
Janah-Upahar in Jaipur and the new organic markets
Jaipur's cooperative Janah-Upahar Super Market stocks NCCF's Janah-brand organic products and CONFED's Upahar-brand spices and millet items. A store that sells such goods meets customers who read what is written on the pack and ask where it came from.
Rajasthan is setting up organic food markets in Jodhpur, Kota and Udaipur to give farmers a better way to sell organic produce, an IANS report said in July 2026. A store that buys from these markets can keep each farmer as a supplier and see what came from whom.